something mildly intersting

the press seems to have decided to pass over details of the economic stimulus negotiation going on now. still its important for all the college students on financial aid , to pa attention and be aware of whats happening. as things stand and unless we do something Pell Grants among other things will soon lose 61 billion dollars by the end of this semester. this could mean many people will need to quit or suspend their college education. while this might reduce the U.S's overall budget it is not (obviously) in our best interest. do we really want ourselves or our friends to have to leave just because the senate is in a tiff with the Obama administration? Obama's plans to reduce federal funding for summer programs and hopes to leave the Pell Grants alone as he sees the Pell Grants as an investment in the future. So all help is needed and if you are feeling supportive  whether its on Facebook or if you want to send a letter to your senator feel free and feel good. 

Presidential bid

well its never to early to start paying attention and that is certainly true for 2012. Jimmy McMillan of The Rent Is To Damn High Party is apparently running for President under the republican banner. other more mainstream Republican candidates include vehement antiabortion activist and radio talk show host Herman Cain and long shot gay rights activist/ political consultant, Fred Karger. As for the Democrats well I think I can assume Obama will be running and interestingly enough infamous anti abortion activist Randal Terry will also be running though according to him it's not so he can win as he said "I am under no delusion that I can win." it seems that he wants to use this opportunity to force TV station to air his anti abortion ads. all in all 2012 seems like it will be a tumultuous year

Union Bashing

The Democratic Senator have apparently fled the state of Wisconsin in hopes of derailing the GOP majority's plans of a final Union crushing bill while avoiding State Police. I don't know about you but thats just hysterical, they don't want this bill to pass so they literally run away. God thats good. In any event this seems to be a major thing if the Unions actions are anything to judge by. The Guardian reported Union Leaders as "pouring resources into Wisconsin but are also planning for battles in Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, Indiana, Michigan and other states facing budget crises. They have put aside $30m for the campaigns." Seems like this is gonna be a drawn out battle, but in the end as always happens there will be some sort of compromise (Probably, hopefully anyway)

Like its neighbors Egypt and Tunisia, Libya was also feeling the after effects of years of repressing it's citizens when they took to the streets calling for such basic things as civil and political rights, and a change from the sham democracy of Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to a true and fair democratic government.
However, unlike Egypt these calls seemed to be smaller and less widespread taking place not in any of Gaddafi's power bases but only in the port city of Benghazi and seemed far from truly threatening. Although if we are to judge the threat level by the response of the police they were extremely dangerous suicidal terrorists.
What this means for america is unclear as recently we appeared to be progressing towards a better relationship with Libya as it abandoned it's nuclear and chemical weapons programs and had even paid restitution to the victims of the Lockerbie bombing. However, when all is said and done I think the U.S. government would prefer to have as many stable governments in the region as possible and our history of saying "lets spread democracy" or even attempting to aid the development of democratic governments has never really been aimed at widespread regional change usually we aimed at aiding specific states even if they were sometimes a little large.

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